Welcome to the national registration page for the WSA Portugal 2019!

ABOUT WSA

APDC - Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications presents the World Summit Awards Portugal 2019 which is an initiative to select and promote the best digital content and innovative applications. It aims to make the benefits of the new Information Society accessible and meaningful for all humanity, and in particular, to raise public awareness and give deserved public recognition to the highest quality digital application based initiative.

The submissions are evaluated by the National Grand Jury, who select the 8 winners. Being nominated for this national contest means that your product is the best in the country in one of our 8 categories. All winners from this National Contest will be nominated for World Summit Award 2019 to take part in the WSA global contest.

World Summit Award is a United Nations based global awards initiative with a clear focus on digital innovation with social impact and relation to the UN SDG’s.

It has been initiated in 2003 in the framework of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) held in Geneva, and cooperates with UNESCO and UNIDO. The declared aim of the conference was to make Information and Communication Technology (ICT) accessible to everyone and to bridge the digital divide. The World Summit Awards (WSA) was established as a means to achieve this and has been working since then on putting the UN-WSIS goals into action.

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The World Summit Awards are a non-monetary award system with a focus on sustainable knowledge transfer through a worldwide network. This means that winners benefit not from a one time financial reward, but a lifelong partnership and integration.

Being nominated for the World Summit Award means to be the best in the respective country in one of our 8 categories. Our experience has shown that this qualification can immensely improve outreach.

Producers' Eligibility

Any company, organisation or individual from all UN and UNESCO member states are welcome to apply.

The WSA Young Innovators Award is limited to projects initiated and executed by people under the age of 26 from any of the UN and UNESCO member states.

Products' Eligibility

WSA is strictly restricted to digital applications with a strong impact on society.

Submissions for the WSA can contain mobile applications, sms based products, webpages, databases, kiosk installations, wearables, IoT etc. There is no limitation regarding the platforms or channels the projects work with.

The projects can be max. 2 years old at the date of nomination.

No ideas, drafts, demonstrations or concepts are accepted, all submitted projects must be market ready or already on the market.

WSA evaluates and highlights the content, user value and local impact of digital solutions.

HOW TO APPLY

Please find here some guidelines on how you should provide this information in order to make the application easier to evaluate and process and hence promote your project the best;

This manual will give you a complete guide on how to submit your application for WSA 2019;

Then, if selected, you will be nominated by the WSA National Expert Panel as best national Digital Application in one of the 8 categories.

Each country can only nominate one project/solution per category.

Nominations to the international WSA are possible only through the National Expert’ selection.

Through this high-level selection system, please be aware that every country has their own deadlines for the call. The generally communicated WSA deadline is the timeframe of the global call and communicates the last possible date of a nomination by the national expert panel.

WSA Young Innovators: EYA serves as the official continental qualification system for the WSA Young Innovators. Among all categories, the best 10 projects of the second jury round from UN or UNESCO countries produced by people under the age of 26 (born on or after January 1, 1993), will automatically qualify for the WSA Global Young Innovators Jury of the WSA Young Innovators Award. For more information please visit eu-youthaward.org

Ricardo Tomé

Isabel Borgas

Vasco Teixeira-Pinto

Ricardo Zózimo

Assistant Professor of Management - NOVA SBE

Miguel Fontes

Executive Director - Startup Lisboa

Fátima Cardoso

Product Manager & Vodafone Power Lab - Vodafone Portugal

Roberto Carneiro

National Expert - WSA

Here you can submit your innovation with high impact on society to be reviewed by your national expert. Please register to get your login data for the WSA Contest Database! We wish you best of luck! Questions? Contact us!

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Please fill in your personal information in order to create a user account. Afterwards you will be able to sign in and register projects to submit to the contest.

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